Recovered memories of child abuse outside of therapy

We examined the incidence of recovered memories child abuse in a large French general public sample (N = 3346). Of 905 (27% total sample) who reported having abuse, 211 (23%) that they had no previous memory of, with 82 these (9% 905) reporting did not know were abused beforehand. Ninety percent latter their when therapy at time. Those outside often discussions peers and/or media exposure related to childhood occurred either before or during recovery. Our prevalence results are discussed light hypothesis many fact reinterpreted continuous memories. The findings on context relation work malleability memory.